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Records that live in pockets
Registrations written on paper never reach the program office. Yields are estimated, not measured, and farmer details go stale between seasons.
Chapter 01 — Roots
Transparent supply chains, empowered communities.
Zamba engages farmers as active partners and equips coordinators with the tools to manage education, scheduling, and participation, building secure and transparent supply chains together.
- Smallholder programs
- Cooperative coordinators
- Buyer-grade traceability
1,480
Cooperatives onboarded
9
Countries in active programs
100
Lots with traceable custody
24
Coordinator support desk
Chapter 02 — The fragmented chain
When the thread breaks, everyone pays for it.
Paper logbooks, WhatsApp handoffs and siloed spreadsheets leave gaps no audit can close. Farmers lose visibility of their own harvest; coordinators lose hours to reconciliation; buyers lose confidence.
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Handoffs nobody signs
Between the farm gate, the collection point and the processing line, custody changes without a record. Disputes become a memory test.
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Compliance as catch-up
Certification and buyer audits arrive as a scramble of forms, retrofitted at the end of a season instead of captured as the season happens.
Zamba pulls the dots back into a line — starting in the hands of the person closest to the field.
Meet the coordinator’s kitChapter 03 — The coordinator’s kit
Equipped in the field, not at the desk.
Coordinators register farmers in minutes, geotag plots, schedule trainings and capture attendance — online or completely offline. Everything syncs the moment a signal appears.
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Mobile registration
Structured farmer profiles, household data, plot sizes and crop history captured at the farm gate.
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Geotagging & plot maps
Boundary capture with area calculation, so hectare claims are verified rather than estimated.
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Offline-first sync
Work continues without connectivity; queued records reconcile automatically and safely.
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Scheduling & participation
Training sessions, deliveries and meetings planned, assigned and tracked to attendance level.
Chapter 04 — The portal opens
Field data becomes a live command view.
Programs, crops, cohorts and compliance assemble into one portal. Managers see what is happening this morning — not what was typed up last month.
Programs & cohorts
Every program, region and farmer group in one navigable structure, with enrolment, activity and delivery status side by side.
- Enrolment
- Cohorts
- Regions
Crops & lots
From seed distribution to delivered weight, each lot carries its own record and its own history.
Compliance views
Certification requirements tracked against real field activity, ready for audit at any point in the season.
Permissions & security
Role-based access for coordinators, program managers and buyers. Data stays scoped, logged and secure.
Chapter 05 — Every batch has a line
One lot, one thread, farm to buyer.
Follow lot ZM-2214 from a mapped plot to a signed delivery. Each custody change is timestamped, attributed and immutable — verifiable by the cooperative, the exporter and the auditor alike.
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Farm & plot
Harvest registered against a verified boundary, with crop, variety and estimated weight.
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Collection point
Intake weighed and logged on the mobile app, even with no network signal.
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Processing
Inputs and outputs linked so mass balance is provable, not assumed.
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Exporter & buyer
A shareable record proves origin, handling and compliance to the end buyer.
Traceability is not a report you write at the end. It is a habit you keep all season.
See the tools in the field
Chapter 06 — Tools in the field
Education, scheduling and participation — in one pocket.
Farmers are partners, not data entries. Zamba delivers training modules in local languages, sends session reminders, and records who showed up — so participation becomes measurable and programmes become accountable.
Education modules
Practical agronomy, safety and compliance lessons, delivered in sequence and tracked to completion.
Scheduling
Training days, deliveries and collection windows scheduled and confirmed without a paper diary.
Participation
Attendance, engagement and follow-through recorded per farmer, per session, per season.
Community
Group messaging and announcements keep the cooperative informed and aligned.
Traceability
Field events feed straight into the lot record, no re-typing required.
Security
Encrypted sync, scoped roles and auditable access across every device in the programme.
Chapter 07 — The harvest ledger
A ledger that grows with every season.
These numbers are not a year-end summary. They are a running account, updated as coordinators register farmers, map hectares, keep schedules and pass audits.
12,480
Farmers registered as active partners
38,900
Hectares mapped and geotagged
94%
Training schedules kept on time
61
Compliance audits passed without findings
Every figure traces back to a named farmer, a mapped plot and a signed record. Transparency is a by-product of good habits — not a marketing claim.
Chapter 08 — A seat at the table
Two voices from the same thread.
Before Zamba, I finished every season with a stack of notebooks and three weeks of typing. Now the season records itself as we work. I spend my time with farmers, not with forms.
My plot is on the map with my own name on it. When the truck leaves with my harvest, I can see the weight and where it went. That has never happened before.
3 wks → 0
Reporting backlog after harvest
+22%
Training attendance within one season
100%
Lots with verifiable origin
Chapter 09 — Join the thread
Start the season with a line you can follow.
Tell us about your programme, your crops and your cooperatives. We will map the onboarding path with you — coordinators first, farmers next, buyers alongside.
